Current Affairs and Contemporary Issues
What this domain tests
The Current Affairs and Contemporary Issues section checks whether you can connect recent developments to the static syllabus: government schemes, appointments, reports, constitutional bodies, economy, science and Andhra Pradesh state initiatives. Questions rarely ask isolated dates; they ask ministry, objective, beneficiary, legal basis or significance.
Core approach
- Classify every item: national/state/international; scheme/policy/report/event; constitutional/statutory/executive.
- For a scheme, fix five anchors: launching ministry, year, target group, funding pattern and implementing agency.
- For appointments and institutions, link the appointing authority and tenure to the constitutional article or statute.
- For AP, track agriculture, ports, energy, education and welfare announcements, but verify whether an item is a proposal, Cabinet approval or implementation.
Worked example
A question says: 'A centrally sponsored rooftop solar scheme aims to install systems in one crore households and provide free electricity up to 300 units a month.' The correct identification is PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, launched in 2024. Reasoning: the household count, rooftop solar and subsidy-linked free electricity are the scheme's identifying anchors; it is not KUSUM, which focuses on farmers and solar pumps.
Traps that cost marks
Do not confuse a Cabinet approval with a law; do not mix central and state schemes; do not recall only the popular name without the ministry; and do not treat a report's recommendation as government policy.